Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.
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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
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Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.